back so close to the world that people would be burned up.
Once, when the sun had been absent a long time, Jack Rabbit sat near his camp fire with his children. They were watching for the sun to return. After a while Jack Rabbit grew weary and fell asleep.
Suddenly he was awakened. "Father, father!" he heard his children cry, "your back is on fire." Jack Rabbit rolled over in the dirt and put the fire out. He was very angry with the sun for coming back and burning him in his sleep.
"You stay here, children," he cried. "I am going to fight that sun. I am tired of its whims."
He picked up his bow and five arrows, and turned his steps toward the east.
After traveling a long while he came to the edge of the world, where the sun comes up. There he sat down and waited. After some time the sun came in sight.
"Now I shall punish you," cried Jack Rabbit, and he shot an arrow at its face. The sun only grinned and burned up the arrow before it was a mile from the earth.
Jack Rabbit sent a second arrow, but it too was burned. So was the third arrow and the fourth. The fifth arrow was a charmed one, and to make doubly sure that it would not burn, Jack Rabbit wet
